Rotted Siding Courses Cut Out and Replaced

Several courses of siding had gone soft with rot. Not one bad board in one spot — a run of damage across more than one elevation, which usually means water has been getting in for a while rather than arriving all at once.

The Work

• Rotted courses cut out and removed, elevation by elevation
• House wrap behind the siding exposed, inspected, and re-taped where it had been torn or had come loose
• New siding cut and fitted to the existing profile, including the corner pieces
• Second-storey window trim scraped and repainted while the ladder work was already set up
• Work sequenced around access — ladder footing, corners and the porch roof all dictate the order

Why the Wrap Mattered More Than the Siding

The siding is the part you see, but it is not the part keeping water out of the wall. That's the house wrap underneath. Once a course of siding comes off, the wrap is the thing worth looking at — torn, loose or badly lapped wrap is how rot gets started in the first place, and covering it back up without fixing it means doing the same job again in a few years.

Where the wrap was damaged it was patched and taped before anything new went on.

About the Colour

The new boards are noticeably lighter than the surrounding siding, and that's deliberate. The owner plans to repaint the whole exterior, so matching the new pieces to weathered boards that are about to be painted over would have been work paid for twice. New material in, paint later, one colour across the whole house.

The Result

The rot is gone, the wrap behind it is sound and sealed, and the wall is closed up and ready for the repaint whenever the owner is.